Poverty & Unemployment
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The Trading Game: A Confession
Gary StevensonCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50'An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart'Hilarious, shocking and deeply sad often in the same sentence' S...
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The Road to Wigan Pier
George OrwellCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwells description of working-class life in industrial communities of the north o...
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Maid: A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick and now a major Netflix series!
Stephanie LandCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99NOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL.BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019.BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK.Educated ...
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By the Waters of Liverpool
Helen ForresterCurrent price €15.29Original price €16.99The third volume in the classic story of Helen Forresters childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s. Helen...
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Liverpool Miss
Helen ForresterCurrent price €14.39Original price €15.99The second volume of Helen Forresters powerful, painful and ultimately uplifting four-volume autobiography of her poverty-stricken childhood in Liv...
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The Great (Food) Bank Heist
Onjali Q. RaufCurrent price €11.47Original price €13.99Written with great empathy and Raúfs trademark humour, this moving story gives a childs-eye view of the increasing problem of food poverty. ...
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Poor Economics: The Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day
Abhijit BanerjeeCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50FROM THE WINNERS OF THE 2019 NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMICS'Refreshingly original, wonderfully insightful . . . an entirely new perspective' GuardianWhy ...
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Poor: The No. 1 bestseller Moving, uplifting, brave heroic BBC Womans Hour
Katriona O'SullivanCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The No. 1 BestsellerBiography of the Year, Irish Book Awards 2023The Last Word Listeners' Choice Award, Irish Book Awards 2023'One of the best [boo...
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Migrants, Markets, and Mayors: Rising above the Employment Challenge in Africa''s Secondary Cities
World Bank PublicationsCurrent price €41.35Original price €46.99In a rapidly urbanizing world, mayors often see migrants as a burden to their cities' labor markets and a threat to their development. Drawing on n...
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Social Poverty: Low-Income Parents and the Struggle for Family and Community Ties
Sarah Halpern-MeekinCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99How low-income people cope with the emotional dimensions of poverty Could a lack of close, meaningful social ties be a publicrather than just a pr...
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Who Were The Real Oliver Twists?: Childhood Poverty in Victorian London
Lynn HamiltonCurrent price €25.65Original price €28.50Charles Dickens Oliver Twist exposed a brutal but commonplace system of child exploitation to Victorian readers. Conditions in workhouses, factorie...
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Learning to Think.: A broken system kept her trapped, education helped her break free
Tracy KingCurrent price €18.25Original price €21.99'An astonishing tale, well structured and punchily told..- Sunday Times'Impossible not to read in one sitting.' - Stylist, Best books for 2024'A me...
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Collateral Damage: Social Inequalities in a Global Age
Zygmunt BaumanCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99The term collateral damage' has recently been added to the vocabulary of military forces to refer to the unintended consequences of armed intervent...
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Community Development in the 21st Century: Empowerment for Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
Andries de BeerCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99This book builds on decades of practice-experience in education for community development. With a clear focus on professionalisation, Community dev...
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Policy, Politics and Poverty in South Africa
Jeremy SeekingsCurrent price €110.69Original price €122.99Seekings and Nattrass explain why poverty persisted in South Africa after the transition to democracy in 1994. The book examines how public policie...
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A Philosophical Examination of Social Justice and Child Poverty
G. GrafCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50This book is open access under a CCBY license. This book investigates child poverty from a philosophical perspective. It identifies the injustices ...
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Public Housing and School Choice in a Gentrified City: Youth Experiences of Uneven Opportunity
M. MakrisCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Winner of the 2016 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award Molly Makris uses an interdisciplinary approach to urban education policy to examine the formal ...
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Invisible Child: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction 2022
Andrea ElliottCurrent price €15.23Original price €17.50Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as so...
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Infants, Toddlers, and Families in Poverty: Research Implications for Early Child Care
Guilford PublicationsCurrent price €63.89Original price €70.99Identifying factors related to poverty that affect infants, toddlers, and their families, this book describes promising early child care and interv...
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The Mobilization of the Unemployed in Europe: From Acquiescence to Protest?
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99In the face of high unemployment in Europe for the past thirty years, the unemployed have organized themselves and mobilized at levels ranging from...
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Parenting, Family Policy and Children''s Well-Being in an Unequal Society: A New Culture War for Parents
D. HartasCurrent price €48.15Original price €55.99Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the reso...
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Fair Trade, Sustainability and Social Change
I. HudsonCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99The authors critically evaluate the fair trade movement's role in pursuing a more just and environmentally sustainable society. Using fair trade as...
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Inequality, Poverty, Education: A Political Economy of School Exclusion
F. AshurstCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This book challenges the practice of exclusion by uncovering its roots in 19th century social and educational policy targeting poor children. Revea...
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Water and Social Policy
M. PawarCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99Manohar Pawar discusses the relevance and importance of social policy for water issues. By analysing several interrelated perspectives on water, he...
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